You *cannot* make friends with the rock stars... If you're going to be a true journalist,...
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Lester Bangs:
You *cannot* make friends with the rock stars... If you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist - first, you never get paid much. But, you will get free records from the record company. Fuckin' nothin' about you that is controversial. God, it's gonna get ugly. And they're gonna buy you drinks, you're gonna meet girls, they're gonna try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs. I know, it sounds great. But, these people are not your friends. You know, these are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars and they will *ruin* rock 'n' roll and strangle everything we love about it. Right? And then it just becomes an industry of - cool
You *cannot* make friends with the rock stars... If you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist - first, you never get paid much. But, you will get free records from the record company. Fuckin' nothin' about you that is controversial. God, it's gonna get ugly. And they're gonna buy you drinks, you're gonna meet girls, they're gonna try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs. I know, it sounds great. But, these people are not your friends. You know, these are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars and they will *ruin* rock 'n' roll and strangle everything we love about it. Right? And then it just becomes an industry of - cool
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But you cannot make friends with the rock stars
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Is it okay if I lf you're to be a rock journalist
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You don't get much but you'll get free records from the record company
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There's just fucking nothing about you that is controversial
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God it'll get ugly They'll buy you drinks
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You'll meet girls They'll fly you places offer drugs
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It sounds great but they aren't friends
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They want snobbish stories about the rock stars' genius
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They will ruin rock and strangle everything we love about it
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They're trying to buy respectability
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for a forum that's gloriously and righteously dumb
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You're smart enough to know that
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The day it ceases to be dumb is the day it ceases to be real
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Then it just becomes an industry of cool
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Movie Summary
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
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Lester Bangs
